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Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Pi-hole - network-level adblocking on a Raspi, so even devices without adblockers get that advantage Dokku - Heroku-like Docker env for Ruby on Rails development https://pi-hole.net https://github.com/dokku/dokku

What you can do, which pi-hole does, is modify your local hosts file and redirect ad URLs to 0.0.0.0. I just set it up that way, just as simple if not easier.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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I self host everything I can at home, so this list might be a bit too exhaustive, but there wasn't any scope on this ask HN, so... Overall hardware platform: 4 pcengines alix boxes for openbsd router/firewall appliances 3 supermicro Opteron servers with KVM/corosync/Sheepdog/csync2 for hosting all VMs Software: PF + CARP + pfsync + OpenBGPD for routing Unbound + NSD + Bind for DNS SSH/OpenBSD ipsec/apache Guacamole f…

I bet you're not in California. The $.27/KWh we pay here would be a showstopper :)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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I really like fossil [0]. It's an alternative to git which includes integrated bug tracking, wiki, and notes.

Definitely suggest giving a try! I'd absolutely love it if the same functionality were available with git/github.

[0] http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

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TeamCity ( https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ ). Seq ( https://getseq.net/ ).

TeamCity is such a wonderful CI tool. I've tried in vain to find an open-source equivalent that has TeamCity's world view regarding snapshot dependencies and VCS triggers, but so far my search has left me empty-handed. That, plus the wide variety of niceties it bakes in (manually cancelling a build that was running for much longer than usual? It will automatically offer to add a note to that build that it was cancell…

There are barely any other programs in existence with quite as many tiny features, let along open source and for the same purpose.

For those who don't know, they give out $free licenses to open source projects so it's a viable and more customizable alternative to TravisCI for your next Github adventure if you want to try it out.

It's even $free for closed source with <= 20 build configurations. I'm sitting on... 19

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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MailInABox [0] After getting tired paying GSuite/GMail $5/mth per user I figured it's time to get my own email server running again. Runs on a single $10 Linode instance, pretty easy to setup, super-easy to maintain, does a great job making your emails _not_ end up in the Spam Folder. [0] https://mailinabox.email

I've read that it can be a hassle to host your own mail server. Have you encountered any issues? Or was it a hassle to set it up?

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Etherpad - http://etherpad.org I always wanted to have the habit of taking lots of notes, but I didn't really like having to carry around a physical notebook. I set up etherpad and now I constantly use it to take notes. It has saved me so many times!

I'm hosting a public instance of Etherpad since a couple of years. The pads never expire and it's now hosting over 60GB of data.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Fossil, Tiddlywiki(?), and for mostly sentimental reasons, this peculiar old bbs-like suite called Citadel: http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/start

Fossil, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Citadel and Webcit, oh dear, if only. I use it for purely in-house stuff, and would love to expose outwardly. Alas, it quotes my passwords back to me in plaintext - game over, as far as I'm concerned.
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